A Research on Education in the Russian East Regions

第一年(1999年)，我们访问了俄罗斯远东地区和东西伯利亚地区的四个主要城市，即(1)尤金-萨赫斯林斯克、(2)伊尔库茨克、(3)弗拉迪沃斯托克和(4)哈巴罗夫斯克，参观了许多普通学校、职业学校、高等教育设施、校外活动设施和教育行政机构，采访了教师、管理人员等，收集了许多研究所需的资料，明确了中小学和高等教育的状况保持不变，并以多样化为目标进行改革。尽管这个国家经济不景气，但许多校外活动设施仍得到维护，并像苏联时期那样发挥着公共教育的第二部分的作用。此外，很明显，外语是从初级教育的低年级开始教授的，这是最受欢迎的la…更多的语言是英语，教授日语的学校也在增加。在第二年(2000年)，我们从前一年的四个地区中选择了两个地区，即伊尔库茨克和哈巴罗夫斯克。在那里，我们主要研究了农业地区的教育状况。在这两个地区，除了教师研究和培训机构外，我们还参观了俄罗斯学校和国立学校。结果很明显，在农业人口减少的同时，少数民族教育得到了加强，俄罗斯文化和少数民族文化正在融合，使生活在同一地区的所有人都分享新的文化。第三年(2001)，我们邀请了俄罗斯当地教育机构的研究人员和管理者，并举办了名为《俄罗斯的地方教育--聚焦伊尔库茨克和哈巴罗夫斯克两个地区》的国际研讨会。研讨会的结果是，很明显，俄罗斯的经济重建使该国的教育状况得以改善。虽然仍然存在许多严重的问题，但一些教育指标，如每位教师的学生人数和班级规模，都好于日本。较少

In the first year(1999), we visited the four chief cities of the Far East region and the East Siberia region in Russian, that is (1) Yujin-Sakhsrinsk, (2) Irkutsk, (3) Vradivostok and (4) Khabarovsk, where we visited many general schools, vocational schools, higher education facilities, facilities for off-campus activities and educational administrative organs and made interviews with teacher, manager and so on and collected many materials necessary for our research.As a result, we made it clear, that the situation of primary, secondary and higher education are maintained as they were, and going on reform aiming at diversification. And in spite of the economic depression in this country, many facilities for off-campus activities are being maintained and functioning as the second section of public education as they were running at period of Soviet Union. In addition, it has become clear, that foreign languages are taught from the lower class of the primary education, the most popular la … More nguage is the English language and schools which teach the Japanese language are increasing.In the second year(2000), we selected two areas out of the four where we were in the previous year, that is Irkutsk and Khabarovsk. There we mainly researched the situation of education in farming areas. In the both areas, we visited schools for the Russians and the national schools in addition to the research and training institutes for teachers. As a result, it has become clear, while population in farming areas is decreasing, education for the minority groups has been strengthened and the russian culture and the culture of minority groups are fusing, so that all people living in same areas share with the new cultures.In the third year (2001), we invited the researcher and administrator of the local educational organs from Russia and held the international symposium named "the local education in Russia - focusing on two areas, Irkutsk and Khabarovsk". As a result of the symposium, it has been clear that the reconstruction of the economy in Russia has made it possible to improve the situation of education in this country. While many serious problems remain, some index of education, such as the number of students per teacher and class-size, are better than in Japan. Less